Gemmail

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{{Lang|fr|Gemmail}} (French, {{plural form|{{Lang|fr|gemmaux}}}}) describes a type of stained glass art developed during the 1930s by French painter Jean Crotti. Translated from French, the word literally means "enamel gem".{{cite web|last1=Elliott|first1=Kelley|title=A Brief History of Gemmaux|url=http://www.cmog.org/article/gemmaux|website=Corning Museum of Glass|publisher=Corning Museum of Glass|accessdate=13 November 2014 |url-access=registration }} It differs from traditional stained glass techniques in that the individual pieces of colored glass are not joined by lead came, but overlapped and glued together with a clear substance. Pablo Picasso is said to have hailed gemmail as a new art form. Inside the Basilica of St. Pius X in Lourdes, Bernadette Soubirous's "Way of Light", based on sketches by René Margotton, depicts the eighteen apparitions together with scenes from her life.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110622115255/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809295,00.html "Art: A New Art"],Time, 1957.